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Tuesday, 4 November 2008

Azure: Spinning up new instances

So I want to test my cloud application and how it will react if I scale my application out.

So by default we run one instance of the service, so if I wish to I can test the number of instances in my development fabric, so I don't get nasty surprises.

To do this all I need to do is modify my Service Configuration file.

ServiceConfiguration.cscfg

To spin up more instances all i need to do is modify the Instances element's count attribute to the number of instances I require.

So in the config below, I have configured the number of instances I am using to 3.